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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Make art with code

Make plotter art using AxiDraw a machine that looks like a prototype and still costs hundreds of dollars but is capable of holding pens and pencils make precision art of lines, pictures, patterns. Take any drawing or art, lettering and calligraphy, run it through a program that generates artistic data from your underlining image (example deciding which dots to plot in what pattern) and in 30 lines of code, you can get this 2D printer like machine to draw anything on paper.